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Sofronoff stripped bare ... Deceit ... Betrayal ... Drumgold hung out to dry as a result of Sofronoff-Albrechtsen information "tryst" ... Latest derailment of conspiracies about the prosecution of manosphere darling, Bruce Lehrmann ... Derangement syndrome ... Sofronoff's "serious corruption" ... Devastation among devoted Banana Benders ... Read more >>

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Bag lady ... Don't call the results until the fat lady sings … Senator's criminal record hidden from view … Inspiration from our B-grade business leaders … Forget the sexual harassment, Dicey Heydon is coming out of the deep freeze ... Read on >> 

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Capital crimes ... Dangerous words likely to be scrubbed from the Trump era lexicon ... Musk and his techie vandals ... The shredder going full blast at the FBI ... Stolen national security documents sent back to Mar-a-Lago ... Cabinet clown show ... White supremacy unleashed ... Consumer protection prosecutions dropped ... Lawyers and law firms threatened ... Roger Fitch from Washington ... Read more >> 

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Letter from London ... Holiday season ... Mother's Day, Lent, Chocolate ... Publisher wants money from Russell Brand for unpublished books ... Paralegal accessed forbidden documents to qualify for legal training contract ... Birthday card payout ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"True to form, the ACT corruption watchdog has put itself at the centre of perceptions of bias with a finding against eminent former Queensland judge Walter Sofronoff KC that serves only to debase the definition of serious corrupt conduct."

The Australian with its unique perspective on "bias" ... March 22, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


For the latest developments in media law … www.glj.com.au 


Justinian Featurettes

Judgment for sale ... Melbourne University Publishing's decision to produce Justice Lee's Lehrmann judgment as a commercial product is not without its problems ... The omnishambles continues ... Melbourne lawyer Nilay B. Patel explains ... Read more >> 


Justinian's archive

Defamation and other misadventures ... So sexy, said the actress of the Chief Justice ... Daphnis dunks women in hot water ... Another (male) judge frocks-up ... Inside Madge's mouth ... Stephen Archer defamed ... David Levine strangles more English ... Justice Dean Mildren "the idiot" ... From Justinian's archive, April 22, 2004 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Friday
Dec222023

2023 - Lest We Forget

A flood of unhappy memories ... A Voiceless Nation ... Corruption triage ... Judges in the slow lane ... Defamatorium ... Saloon refurbishment ... Tribunal upgrade ... Stinging Nettle v The Judd ... Quotes chiseled in stone ... Theodora reports 

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Monday
Dec182023

Grant Donaldson SC

High profile Sand Groper from the WA bar n' grill is On the Couch ... Films, music, books ... Cases and crimes ... Preventative detention in migration cases ... Closed courts ... Eyes shut yet still awake 

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Friday
Dec152023

Big week with the zombies

High Court and UK Supreme Court decisions on immigration detainees ... Fear and loathing ... Remembering Gerry Hand ... Parliament's pre-Christmas meltdown ... Judiciary to sprinkle magic water over re-incarcerations ... Procrustes on the creeping encroachment of the State  

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Thursday
Dec142023

AI and its hallucinations

Generative AI is particularly counterproductive for the legal profession ... Rubbish in ... Rubbish out ... Mistakes and confirmation bias ... Precision and consistency under assault ... Veronica Lenard reports 

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Friday
Dec082023

Close to the source

The Map - Cowboy judge knocking over the china - One man's judicial rodeo, with leaks ... Mess-O-Potamia - Big Middle Eastern river system has court watches intrigued ... Justice Jenni slows down to set a new record ... Leading law academic shakes-up procedural fairness at the AAT ... Theodora reports 

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Tuesday
Dec052023

The History Boys

ASIC v CBA ... "Grandfathering" and its origins ... Exposition by Justice Jackman ... An unfortunate connection to race-based voter restrictions in the US of A ... Inappropriate use of the word in legal jargon ... Other judicial history detours ... Associate of judges Ginger Snatch reports 

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Sunday
Dec032023

Federal judge gets to grips with the fair minded observer

Bar career acting for the government in migration cases ... Multiple recusal applications ... Googling from the box ... Novel approaches ... Ducking the High Court's Bromwich decision 

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Friday
Dec012023

Moneybags update

Correction ... Willy Alstergren's pay day ... Plus, the AG's Department showers money on private law shops and counsel ... Steady annual increases on outlay for lawyers ... Happy days ... Ginger Snatch reruns the numbers 

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Friday
Nov242023

Julian Burnside

A barrister, much of whose career has been in the public eye ... Counsel to the rich and the deprived ... Flirting with politics ... Career change ... Retirement ... Relaxation and writing await ... On The Couch 

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